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What is a virtual autopsy conducted on comedian Raju Srivastava?

Comedian Raju Srivastava’s post-mortem was done through a virtual autopsy at Delhi’s AIIMS. Dr Sudhir Gupta, head of the department of forensic medicine at AIIMS, said that Srivastava’s post-mortem was performed using a novel technology known as “virtual autopsy”. Virtual autopsy or virtopsy employs imaging methods that are also used in clinical medicine such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, etc for autopsy and to find the cause of the death. In December 2019, Dr Harsh Vardhan, the then Union health minister, had called virtual autopsy a “dignified management of dead body”, acknowledging that traditional post-mortem often makes a deceased’s family uncomfortable.

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